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  • Celtic Music and Dance in Cornwall

    Cornu-Copia

    by Lea Hagmann ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Focusing on the Cornish Music and Dance Revival, this book investigates the revivalists’ claims about Cornwall’s cultural distinctiveness and Celtic heritage, both which are presently used as arguments to promote the English county’s political status as an independent Celtic nation. The author describes two different revival movements that aim at reviving Cornwall’s culture but seem to have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Welsh Language

    A History

    by Janet Davies ...
    The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales may be intrigued by the existence of Welsh and will want to find out how a language which has, for at least fifteen hundred years, been the closest ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Irish Traditional Music

    by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The history of Irish traditional music, song and dance from the mythological harp of the Dagda right up to Riverdance and beyond.Exploring an abundant spectrum of historical sources, music and folklore, this guide uncovers the contribution of the Normans to Irish dancing, the role of the music maker in Penal Ireland, as well as the popularity of dance tunes and set dancing from the end of the 18th ... Read more

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  • Companion to Irish Traditional Music

    Edited by Fintan Vallely ...
    The Companion to Irish Traditional Music is a landmark, easy to use A-Z format for studying, exploring and researching one of Ireland’s most universally recognisable cultural expressions.Among the existing publications on Irish traditional music there are works of monumental initiative and deservedly enduring status. But the radical development in this music scene since the 1960s mark it now as an ... Read more

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  • Ireland as Gaeilge

    A User-Friendly Guide to the Irish Language

    by Olga Balaeva ...
    Are you confused by all the Irish language signs you see around you? Do you wonder if and when the Irish actually speak Irish? After spending thirteen years learning Irish in school, why do so few Irish people actually speak it?Ireland as Gaeilge tells the story of the Irish language in a popular and engaging way, combining historical and linguistic facts with a light tone. Written by a Russian ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Special Relationships

    People and Places

    by Asa Briggs ...
    The renowned English historian reflects on the meaningful personal relationships in his life, from his childhood and education to his professional career." Special Relationships exudes a larger-than-life bonhomie, recording the sheer enjoyment of a career that has embraced academic administration, educational policy-making and social activism as well as books." — Times Literary Supplement</str... ... Read more

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  • A Little Gay History of Wales

    by Daryl Leeworthy ...
    A Little Gay History of Walestells the compelling story of Welsh LGBT life from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on a rich array of archival sources from across Britain, together with oral testimony and material culture, this pioneering study is the first to examine the experiences of ordinary LGBT men and women, and how they embarked on coming out, coming together and changing the ... Read more

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  • The New Elizabethan Age

    Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II

    Edited by Irene Morra, Rob Gossedge ...
    In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature

    Edited by Gerard Carruthers, Liam McIlvanney ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work ... Read more

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  • Boy Republic

    Patrick Pearse and Radical Education

    by Brendan Walsh ...
    Patrick Pearse, teacher, poet, and one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising has long been a central figure in Irish history. The book provides a radically new interpretation of Patrick Pearse's work in education, and examines how his work as a teacher became a potent political device in pre-independent Ireland. The book provides a complete account of Pearse's educational work at St. Enda's ... Read more

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  • Association Football

    A Study in Figurational Sociology

    by Graham Curry, Eric Dunning ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sports History
    This book presents a synthesis of the work on early football undertaken by the authors over the past two decades. It explores aspects of a figurational approach to sociology to examine the early development of football rules in the middle part of the nineteenth century. The book tests Dunning’s status rivalry hypothesis to contest Harvey’s view of football’s development which stresses an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

    Edited by Gerald Dawe ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primarily at lovers of poetry, it examines a wide range of poets, including household names, such as Jonathan Swift, Thomas Moore, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh, Eavan Boland and Paul Muldoon. The book is comprised of thirty ... Read more

    $36.09 USD